Penguin RushDelivery course
My wife and I went to "antenatal class - the art of parenthood" organised by UKM Hospital last 4th March 2007. It was a good course. However, it didn't come with the teachings of how to deliver and raise your child the Islamic ways, like we had expected. Probably because the course is open to the public and not just to Muslim (future) parents only. We also recently found out that Pusrawi Hospital does include those aspects in their antenatal class, and at a cheaper cost, but then, guess too late for that now, huh....sigh...
Anyway, here are some of the new things that me (especially) and wife learned from the class:
1. Do you know that during pregnancy, a woman undergoes a series of changes in terms of physical changes, anatomical adjustment, psychological (emotional) changes and endriconological (hormon) changes? Alhamdulillah, throughout her pregnancy, my wife doesn't go through any radical changes. She didn't even experience vomiting or nauseatic in her first trimester. In fact, she still looks all rosy and energetic despite it's already towards the end of the third trimester. Hopefully, her future pregnancies would be just as 'easy' as the first pregnancy.
2. What are the labour signs that can help you and your wife prepare for the actual labour? There are 3 common signs - pain, show and leaking. Hopefully you can figure something out based on these terms. I feel somewhat reluctant to explain further since this is not really an antenatal blog, haha...
3. Post-partum blues can start as early as 4 days after delivery. This problem is common and occurs in more than 50% of new mothers. If even after taking measures to prevent and/or help you cope with the blues, you still continue feeling upset beyond 14 days, medical treatment should be sought after.
4. There are many ways to breastfeed your babies and forms of antenatal exercises.
5. We were also one of the couples who attended who got picked out to practise giving bath to a dummy baby.
6. Some of the new terms to help enrich my vocabularies, hehe, are Quickening (the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus), Braxton-Hicks (a tightening of the uterine muscles that most women feel especially during the 2nd or 3rd trimester of pregnancy) and Regional Blocks (epidural and spinal blocks performed by anaesthetist as a pain relief during childbirth).
All in all, it was a great course!
Labels: My Children, My Families
posted by The Pisces Man @ 12:45 am
6 Comments:
Pisces man? fish guy eh? something fishy there, mate?
Some bapak pengsan tau tgk baby kua...so...r u that brave enuf to undergo that?
dah x lama sgt nak banak ni!!! counting the days kan..sonok nyer
anw akak pun penah pi kelas parenting kat hukm tu, 2 sessions. 1 sessi akak pi ngan laki, 1 sessi lagi kitorg x pi coz laki akak balik lambat terlajak tido, aku majuk kat hall!!!
ahahhahaha
cite lama..
of course it was great for you. you are not the one who has to beranak
Manal,
fishy eh? Hehe, guess it is...
actually, I plan I want to be in the same room when she delivers. We were informed during the course that fathers dont get to see the show from where the doctor and nurses will be. We can only stay by her side, near her head and hold her hand or something, to comfort her.
So, I guess, hopefully I tak pengsan la naa..
Kak Red punya course ada 2 sessions? Kitaorg cuma satu hari Sabtu tu jer..
Ooo, rajuk majuk yaa? Hehehe..
Mr Incognito, you dont have to highlight that, that I'm not the one who has to beranak ;p
Tapi at least I try to understand what she is going thru' + try to be there during her pregnancy, tul tak? :o
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